Protek offers decorative lime plaster & other professional architectural texture products, along with a full range of glazes, metallic paints and speciality coatings.
Extensive group of Architecture Textures & Finishes
Protek offers decorative lime plaster & other professional architectural texture products, along with a full range of glazes, metallic paints and speciality coatings.
Venetian Plaster options is like having an Architecture Texture Library of possibilities
Decorative Lime Plaster provides different textures in architecture that create spaces with unique design elements to match the design desires of architects, designers and owners.
Decorative Lime plaster is utilized in;
- Homes
- Restaurants
- Retail Stores
- Offices
- Entrance Ways
- Foyers
- & throughout commercial buildings
Interior lime plastered walls place you within an elegant design setting, fulfilling the importance of texture in architecture.
Most of all, decorative lime plasters provide textured architecture finishes for any wall or building interior where they are applied.
Decorative Walls Place you within an Elegant Design Setting
Venetian decorative lime plasters consist of natural materials with low environmental impact that is driving their popularity. They are often used in combination with a product such as Vesuvio to obtain relief, rough or smooth surfaces according to the application technique.
These can be limestone architectural textures that incorporate natural design elements in our everyday living and working spaces. They literally inject earth like designs.
Recent technological changes to decorative lime plaster mix has made them easier to apply. PROTEK imports many different kinds of natural lime plaster directly form Italy and is the North American distributor of Coverit Lime Plaster products, the finest manufactured lime plasters available today.
MircoToppings offer Seamless Texture for Walls & Floors
Continuous linear Industrial design style effect.
Marmorino Lime Plasters provide Venetian Styles
Marble is a metamorphic rock composed primarily of calcium carbonate (CaCO3) that is combined with slaked lime to create a lime putty (Grassello). Used since antiquity, Italian lime plasters have been part of the construction trade for decorative elements.
These plasters are graded according to the size of the marble grain from extremely fine to coarse. The finest grains have the highest sheen obtained from the polishing process and are often termed as ‘Marmorino Fine Plasters’, which are the most requested polished lime plaster finishes.
Protek is the exclusive Distributor for Coverit in North America
Technical Tip
It is the way light is refracted by the calcite crystals in Marmorino Plasters that provide a shimmering or lustrous look that is 100% natural.
Lime Plaster advantages allow for diverse design options
As a traditional method of coating architectural surfaces, decorative lime plaster has always delivered a superior result due to its many inherent qualities; texture & colour selection, multiple finihing options and being 100% natural. Today, modern architectural textures can benefit from the custom design capabilities provided by decorative lime plasters.
Tadelakt Plaster in a Commercial Space
Tadelakt, for centuries, has been appreciated for its durability and its aesthetically pleasing exotic appearance in wet areas such as showers and spas, as well as on floors and countertops. It can be finished with dark or light Olive Oil Soap.
Technical Tip
Tadelakt is similar to Marmorino and is usually applied in 2 coats with a trowel. It can be coloured as required and once fully dry Tadelakt is protected by a special cream soap that must be completely absorbed.
Decorative Lime plaster is composed of sand, lime, and water making it breathable, especially in humid areas such as bathrooms. If moisture gets stuck inside walls then health risks can increase, due to mold, as well as issues concerning the buildings’ structure.
Tadelakt is a traditional Moroccan wall finish, originating in the Marrakesh region. It can be found in Moroccan steam baths, and traditional Moroccan houses of Marrakesh. It has a smooth appearance, slightly shiny like Marmorino Carrara, but thicker and less textured.
Calcite is an eco-friendly, coarse grain, trowel-applied wall coating product, obtained from natural slaked-lime calcinated in wood-fire kilns and selected marble powders.
Velvety and textured stone effect, when mixed with additives, creates emotional and fascinating atmosphere.
Adding metallic elements produces dramatic effects.
Intonachino is one of the most decorative finishes among the Italian lime-based plasters.
It allows you to achieve very desirable effects, as it mimics antique plaster.
In comes in three (3) different granules:
- Extra Fine
- Fine
- Medium
Travetino Roma is a coarse grain, trowel-applied wall coating product, obtained from natural slaked-lime calcinated in wood-fire kilns. Marble powders can be added, which leads to the creation of countless decorative finishes, depending on the application technique.
With Travetino Roma you can create smooth to intensely textured effects, depending on the application technique.
PROTEK Manufactures Professional Acrylic Plasters
PROTEK manufactures a full range of acrylic plasters and other professional products under the brand Texturline worldwide. These acrylic plasters can duplicate the looks of decorative lime plasters and innovate by incorporating elements that provide modern textures relevant to architecture designs. Our acrylic plasters make Protek one of the premier architectural finish manufacturers in North America.
Many acrylic coatings are washable, eliminating some construction steps and materials. Acrylic plasters are flexible and robust, making them suitable for all surfaces.
Acrylic Venetian plaster
Verdigris over copper plaster & waxes
For this ‘Weathered Effect’ or any other Metallic Organic Textures, such as Rust, Copper or Suede, along with the special wall finishes shown here, get in touch with us and find out how we can help get this done for your living space, office & building reception areas or retail space.
PROTEK Architectural Finishes List
Our creativity, experience and manufacturing expertise allow us to offer a system of genuine, high-quality Venetian and Decorative Lime Plasters for professional applicators, so they can fully display their talents as artisans. Our main collection is made up of Marmorino Plaster in varied aggregate sizes and custom coloured to meet all the needs requested in the marketplace to produce different types of wall finishes for architectural design.
Designers and architects can choose from a full range of Protek Product options to meet the needs of both their residential and commercial clients. Working with artisans, the best lime or acrylic plaster can be selected for the project and combined with colour, additives, and topcoats along with a specific application technique to ensure clients are completely satisfied with a unique design from the Protek architectural finishes palette. Designers, artisans and architects can choose a full range of options to meet the needs of both their residential and commercial clients.
PROTEK products can be divided into five distinct groups;
LIME PLASTER
Plasters that use either as putty lime or Grassello in the formulation (i.e. Marmorino) to make a stable wet plaster paste with a 3-year shelf life.
These plaster styles produce different architectural finishes, from a glass-like polish that’s very smooth, to an extremely textured surface with a varied relief.
DRY LIME PLASTER
Dry bagged lime plaster mixed with an aggregate, either marble or sand, has a limited cure time once mixed with water.
Dry products duplicate group (a) above but offer applicators the advantage of mix control over the viscosity of the paste, to shorten or lengthen cure times.
ACRYLIC PLASTER
Acrylic plaster is a wet mix with an acrylic binder. It is a relatively new texture that has its advantages in stability, ease of coloration and being easier to apply. Available in Acrylic Venetian Plaster (i.e. very smooth) or Carolina Sandstone (smooth to coarse) these can be polished accordingly to achieve different types of architectural wall design finishes.
MICROTOPPINGS
Microtoppings are seamless, producing a consistent design look for the entire area. These high-performance coatings especially useful for wet environments and are applied over a multitude of substrates. They can be applied directly over existing tiles, without demolition.
PROTEK carries all three (3) types of MicroToppings: Cement, Lime-Based & Acrylic.
SEALING SOLUTIONS FOR CONCRETE, WOOD & STONE
Increasing the lifespan of construction materials with environmentally friendly waterproofing products.
PROTEK Interior Architectural Finishes
PROTEK LIME PLASTERS | VENETIAN PLASTER | MARMORINO PLASTER | DECORATIVE LIME PLASTER |
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Marmorino Classico | X | X | X |
Marmorino Lucido Grassello | X | X | X |
Marmorino Carrara | X | X | X |
Marmorino Duetto | X | X | X |
Botticino | X | X |
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Calcite | X | X |
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Roma Travertino | X | X |
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Vesuvio | X | X |
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Tadelakt | X |
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Intonachino | X |
PROTEK LIME PLASTER WAXES | PROTEK LIME PLASTER ADDITIVES |
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Cream Wax | Luci |
Beeswax Cream | Terra Cotta |
Natural Wax | Fiamme de Rochas |
Tadelakt Wax Light | Salt & Pepper Sand |
Tadelakt Wax Dark | Mother of Pearl |
Parafin Wax | Glass Flake |
Beeswax Liquid | Mica Flake |
Natural Wax | |
Marseilles Soap |
PROTEK MICROTOPPINGS: ALL 3 TYPES | CEMENT | ACRYLIC | LIME |
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Microbond | X | ||
Microbond Fine | X | ||
Meteore 14 | X | ||
All Terrain | X |
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Self-Levelling Overlay - For All Products | X |
PROTEK ACRYLIC PLASTERS | METALLIC ACRYLIC BASE | CRACKED ACRYLIC |
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Acrylic Venetian Plaster | ||
Urban Moire | X | |
Carolina Sandstone | X |
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Texturstone | ||
Calce |
PROTEK ACRYLIC WAXES | PROTEK ACRYLIC GLAZES |
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Satin Wax | Extender Glaze |
Flat Wax | Basic Glaze |
Burnishing Wax | Ez Glaze |
Metallic Wax | Prime Glaze |
Scumble Glaze |
PROTEK ACRYLIC VARNISH | PROTEK ACRYLIC CRACKLE |
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Satin Varnish | Ez Crackle |
Zero Gloss Varnish | Aquaglass |
PROTEK Exterior Architectural Finishes
PROTEK EXTERIOR PRODUCTS | TYPE |
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Lime | Paint |
Metaltech | Paint |
Endurable | Cement |
Evercrete | Water-Based Sealer |
Brickcover | Water-Based Sealer |
Other PROTEK Tools
Protek is one of North America’s premier Lime Plaster Suppliers
Our experience with lime based venetian plaster, or lime based decorative plasters is extensive. We supply some of the highest-quality lime plasters available in the marketplace today along with applicators who are able to complete lime plaster applications at the highest level of professionalism and creative artisan abilities. We also supply specific lime plastering tools and lime plaster pigments needed for this work, with ‘Best in the Business’ custom colour matching services. You can count on PROTEK to be well supplied whenever you want buy lime plaster products, both ready mixed lime plaster and bagged powder.
Lime Plaster FAQs
How To Colour Lime Plaster?
We offer custom color service. It is part of professional level of service we provide our customers.
How Long Does Lime Plaster Take To Dry?
Decorative Lime Plaster takes 24 hours for the 1st coat to dry. However, the total cure time is 14 days.